The Social Scripture
Ryan Hamilton Reference iPhoneiPadiPod touch
The Social Scripture is a free Reference app for iPhone and iPad by Ryan Hamilton. Rated 4.0/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated August 24, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.0
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 56 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Aug 24
- 2026 · v1.1.3
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About The Social Scripture
Social Scripture is a Bible app for people who read closely, write down what they find, and are willing to defend it. READ IN THE ORIGINAL The King James Version alongside the American Standard, World English, and 1599 Geneva Bibles. Read the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew and the New Testament in the Greek of Westcott and Hort. Hold any word to see its parsing — stem, tense, person, gender, number — and its dictionary entry, drawn from 8,674 Hebrew and 5,523 Greek lexicon entries. Morphology covers the Old Testament in Hebrew and 7,938 of the 7,940 verses of the Greek New Testament. BEYOND THE SIXTY-SIX The Apocrypha. Twenty-five works of the early church fathers, dated and in order. The complete Mishnah, arranged by its six orders. All searchable, all quotable, all in the same reader. NOTES THAT GO SOMEWHERE Highlight a verse or a single word. Write notes and keep them private, share them with friends, post them to a study group, or publish them to the Public Bible where anyone can read and comment. Tag any verse from anywhere in the app and tap the tag to jump straight to it. Build topics that gather passages across books. STUDY WITH OTHERS Follow people whose reading you trust. Start a group for your church or your class, with roles, moderation, and a shared wall. Message directly. See who is online. THEN DEBATE IT This is what makes Social Scripture different. Challenge a public note or topic and the author is shown exactly what you disagree with and why — you cannot issue a challenge without writing your objection first. Debates run in three formats. Written debates follow a formal structure, with constructives, rebuttals, and closing arguments on timed deadlines. Video debates run on your own stream. Verbal debates happen in an in-app audio room: debaters and a moderator speak, everyone else listens, and the moderator can mute a mic. Both debaters must agree on the time, and on a moderator if they want one — the challenge card passes back and forth until you settle it. When the debate closes, the room locks and voting opens for seven days. The community decides. Voting is locked until the debate is over, you cannot vote for yourself, and a result only stands once enough people have voted. RECORDED, WITH CONSENT Verbal debates are recorded only after every debater and moderator agrees on a consent screen. Listeners are never recorded, and a notice appears in the room whenever recording is active. Recordings are stored privately and deleted automatically when voting closes. YOUR ACCOUNT, YOUR TERMS Export your notes. Delete your account and its data from inside the app. Report or block anyone. Group leaders and moderators can remove content from their own spaces.
What’s new
Version 1.1.3 · Updated August 24, 2026
Full in-app playback for debate recordings — skip, scrub, change speed, and listen in the background (no more freezing on lock). Download debate audio, more accurate "Live Now" status, and clearer forfeit/no-show handling. Bug fixes and performance improvements.
App privacy
The developer, Ryan Hamilton, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- User Content: Emails or Text Messages, Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Social Scripture | 4.0 / 5 (3 ratings) | Free | August 24, 2026 |
| Aleph: Hebrew & Greek Bible | – | Free | Sep 7, 2026 |
| Theologica: Bible Scholar | 5.0 / 5 (1) | Free | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Exegesis: Bible Study | 5.0 / 5 (8) | Free | Sep 26, 2026 |
| Apologetics Ark | 5.0 / 5 (38) | Free | Jul 24, 2026 |
| TorahResource | 4.5 / 5 (4) | Free | Sep 25, 2026 |
| BibleScan: Biblical Doctrine | 5.0 / 5 (5) | Free | Aug 19, 2026 |